Perhaps I've just been unlucky, but I really haven't had much joy with RW media. Several CDRW disks I have which have never been used, just stored for a couple of years, refuse to write in any of the CDRW drives around the place, and I have others, not the same make, which have gradually become corrupted. This isn't helped by the rather uncharitable behaviour windows has toward media it doesn't like, which often results in the machine locking up having swallowed the disk and choked to death on it.

The DVD+RW I tried burning last night failed, and after being erased so I could try again just hangs any machine I put it in until it's removed. I have no idea what's happening as no error message is produced, all that happens is that the hard drive light comes on solidly for 10 seconds or so, repeating every 10-15 seconds, and everything stops responding. Eject the disk, and it all returns to normal, which is at least an improvement over a BSOD I suppose

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